“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it,“ is a quote attributed to Mark Twain.
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Topics: Training, Leadership Training, training and education, Education & Training, Leadership Team
It’s ironic that as I started to write Select The Right People – Zappos “Are You Lucky? I was feeling good about my recovery from Acute Myeloid Leukemia and my Bone Marrow Transplant. That Tuesday I decided to go to the University of Iowa Hospital/Clinic since my leg hurt since I slipped and fell into my snow blower the week before.
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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, priorities, routine sets you free, Bone Marrow Transplant, habits, routine, top priorities
What I’ve written about Zappos Core Values before bears repeating. We’ll examine using Core Values in your hiring and selection process focusing on a specific value that Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos is particularly fond of.
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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Core Values, Zappos, hiring decisions, Mono Somy 7, Michelle Wick
A fundamental principle of Good to Great and The Rockefeller Habits is the first place to grow your business is People. People is one of the Four Decisions in growing your business, that you must get right or risk leaving significant revenues, profits, and time on the table. If you don’t recall Jim Collins quote from Good to Great, you should keep it somewhere on your desk as a constant reminder, “First who than what.”
People, Collins states, are more important that the product or service you provide.
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Topics: employee engagement, People, Four Decisions, A Players, Topgrading, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey
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Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, Employee Recognition, employee performance, positive reinforcement, human behavior performance
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Topics: quarterly meetings, Employee Recognition, Accountability, employee performance, success criteria, Meetings a Cadence of Accountability
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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Decision-Making, One Thing, Annual Plan, Four Decisions, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, leadership commitment, Execution
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The final piece to the Seven Strata of Strategy is actually two pieces. Remember the Seven Strata of Strategy are from Mastering the Rockefeller Habits author, Verne Harnish. His Fortune Magazine article revealed from careful research following the last recession these specific strategies were key differentiators to increase revenue faster than competitors who didn’t have these key elements identified. Companies that had these seven strategies identified outpaced their competition even during the last recession.
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Topics: strategy, Profit per X, Seven Strata of Strategy, BHAG
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Topics: Business Growth, strategy, Seven Strata of Strategy, X Factor
We’re reviewing the Seven Strata of Strategy. These are the specific strategic elements that Verne Harnish discovered mid-size businesses that had continued to grow and increase revenue during the last recession had in common to differentiate themselves and best their competition.
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Topics: Business Growth, The Inside Advantage, strategy, Seven Strata of Strategy, Verne Harnish
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